...was wont to escape to it from London ; the unfortunate Charles made it his home, and when his son, who " never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," came to the throne, he determined to build at Greenwich the finest royal palace England had ever had....

...indelible traces of the licence and extravagance of his predecessors, and especially of the king " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." The annual grants varying from .£1,000 to .£4,000 a year bestowed on the Dukes of St. Albans, Grafton,...

...name he bears, without any of their weaknesses. In fact, just imagine the last royal Charles Stuart, who "never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," returned to earth again, repentant now of all his follies, and as wise in heart and deed as witty,...

...royal brother de Prusse, en lui appliquant deux vers souvent cités sur un personnage de comédie.' „Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one . . ." C'est en effet charmant ; elle l'appliquait aux affaires de Neuichâtel, qu'on terminera sans...

...carrying on the work he had begun. Less than a year, therefore, after Cromwell's demise, Charles II, " who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," mounted the throne of his father and began the reign which was to transform the grave England of the...

...to rule. But both ideas were extreme. The Stuart Restoration followed in 1660 and the Merry Monarch who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one, plunged England into twenty-five years of trouble. Spain, France, Germany, England make a sad background,...

...the other hand, of our polished rulers, James I, ' the wisest fool in Christendom,' and Charles II, ' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' confirm that people who have filled themselves with undigested learning can talk most wisely in drawing...

...good humor that he got that far-famed charter to Connecticut. They said that Charles II. was a monarch who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. Whether it was wise for him or not, the charter of Connecticut that he gave, with its principles of...

...good humor that he got that far-famed charter to Connecticut. They said that Charles II. was a monarch who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. Whether it was wise for him or not, the charter of Connecticut that he gave, with its principles of...

...peerage was established. Perhaps this episode was quite in accord with the character of the monarch "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." At any rate, one cannot help thinking more leniently of him for his dying injunction to "take care...